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Warpy

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1. The probolem is that the "peace deal," which is the unconditional surrender
Fri Apr 10, 2026, 07:49 PM
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to Iran by the USA, isn't going to stand any longer than the cease fire did and for the same reason: you can't negotiate with terrorists.

Before the ink has dried on any document, a ship trying to transit the Strait will hit a mine, be hit with an anti ship rocket or drone, or even boarded and confiscated.

There will be plenty of finger pointing both ways, so I'm not afraid about thatm it's what Republicans do when they need deodorant. They have never needed it quite this badly before, we'll have to see how much of it sticks to them.

This war hs abeen pushed for decades by oil boys, the PNAC, and a bunch of empty headed theoreticians at the Pentagon who just wanted to see if their shit worked. Uh, no, and I've been shooting holes in their plans for just as long.

Now that Fatso has stepped in it, I have no idea how it will end. Most likely we'll end with it.

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